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Washington Report
(August 25, 2014) Efficiency and seamless integration are the name of the game as the Air Force works to define the roles of each component in the Total Force.
That's according to Gen. Mark A. Welsh III, the chief of staff of the Air Force. Welsh was a featured speaker Saturday... Read more

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(August 5, 2014) A 10-member panel that includes retired generals, former Pentagon officials and former members of Congress says the 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review describes a military underfunded for the world it faces and blames sequestration for the problem.
The National... Read more

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(July 22, 2014) The Senate Appropriations Committee last week questioned the Army's plan to remove all AH-64 Apache helicopters from the Army National Guard and wants a cost analysis of what is called the aviation restructure initiative.
The lawmakers also included in the fiscal... Read more

Right now is a very good time for every member of the National Guard to stand up and be counted.
The Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission, established by the fiscal 2013 National Defense Authorization Act, is currently conducting a review of all military compensation and... Read more

Washington Report
(July 1, 2014) The White House requested $58.6 billion for overseas contingency operations last week, a drop of nearly $20 billion from last year's request as fighting in Afghanistan continues to wind down. The request arrived nearly five months after the president's defense... Read more

By Rebecca Autrey
(May 29, 2014) A co-chairman of the House National Guard and Reserve Components Caucus says data must be the driving factor behind future policy decisions on the structure of the Total Army.
Rep. Tim Walz, D-Minn., spoke this morning at an event at the Center for Strategic and... Read more

(May 29, 2014) The Congressional Budget Office should design a common costing model to accurately measure the costs of the active-component Army and the Army National Guard so decisions based on budget issues can be meaningful.
That’s one recommendation in a report from the Center for Strategic and... Read more

Washington Report
(May 27, 2014) The House of Representatives has included a commission to study the structure of the Army in its version of the 2015 National Defense Authorization Act. Plus, the Senate Armed Services Committee has included the panel in its version of the bill, which later this... Read more

The National Defense Authorization Act handily passed Thursday by the House of Representatives authorizes $552.1 billion in spending for national defense and an additional $79.4 billion for overseas contingency operations. The vote was 325 to 98.
In addition to provisions mentioned previously, the... Read more

WASHINGTON (May 22, 2014) ― The National Guard Association of the United States today released the following statement by retired Maj. Gen. Gus Hargett, the NGAUS president, on today’s final House passage of the fiscal 2015 National Defense Authorization Act:
“National Guardsmen across the country... Read more